Parents purchased a laptop, and they want to be able to connect it to our current internet connection, instead of having to leech a wireless connection from our neighbors. Currently looks like this: Want to create a LAN, so we can share printers and files and such. What hardware would I need, etc.? I'm a complete idiot…
edit: Damn it! Ryan beat me to it /edit get a wireless router, and stick it between the modem and your PC. Your PC will still plug in to it with a regular network cable, but the laptop can use wifi to connect. I just got this, and it kicks my old Linksys 54g's ass:…